Lexden Primary School

The Carnival of the Animals project: 2024-2025

Each class from Reception to year 6 had the opportunity to work with the Mercury Theatre for drama, music and movement. The reel below shows some highlights:

School Council art competition on the theme of 'Carnival of the Animals'

And the winners are...

EYFS and KS1: Isla, year 1 (elephant sculpture)

KS2: Jessica, year 5 (music and animals panorama)

Have a look at what each class has been up to in their Carnival of the Animals journey. Each class chose a piece (or two) from the suite of 14 movements. They used these to inspire creative arts and cultural experiences.

Year 6 - Birds

Acrylic pouring paints to create birds. Nihal's mum came in to show us how to do it and the results are amazing!

Year 5 - Aquarium

Batik - using hot wax to create resist patterns, then fabric dye to colour. These were then sewn into cushion covers with one side batik, and the other side hand sewn, as part the year 5 DT curriculum.

Exploring aquarium scenes through close observations using watercolours. 

Year 4 - Birds

Sculpture using newspaper, masking tape and wire

Sketching with pencils

Year 3 - Swans and donkeys

Creating clay tiles (fired in a proper clay oven) to form a whole class swan image

Swans and donkeys - sketches with pastels

Year 2 - Lions

Printing - using hand-carved polystyrene tiles and printing ink

Year 1 - Elephants

Using wax pastels to explore textures and scenery

Reception - Fossils (and dinosaurs)

Multilayered artworks with background, foreground and guided sketching to create the dinosaur subjects.

Lots of dinosaurs and fossils learning in continuous provision!

Nursery - Tortoises, lions and elephants

Tortoises and elephants

Lions in different ways